Health promotion and disease prevention have become important activities in the range of
health care options available to individuals and groups (Bennett & Murphy, 1997; Davies & …

Edited by Robert M. Huff, Michael V. Kline, and Darleen V. Peterson, the Third Edition of
Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations offers both students and practitioners an …

The Handbook of Cultural Health Psychology discusses the influence of cultural beliefs,
norms and values on illness, health and health care. The major health problems that are …

The thoroughly updated Second Edition of Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations
grounds readers in the understanding that health promotion programs in multicultural …

The purpose of this chapter is to integrate biological factors with social, cultural, and
psychological factors relevant to health, illness, and disease and to draw conclusions from …

Publisher Summary The chapter focuses on the evolving concept of health and its relation to
culture, the historical underpinnings in the field of health psychology, and the interface …

To augment the rigor of health promotion research, this perspective article describes how
cultural factors impact the outcomes of health promotion studies either intentionally or …

The goals of this second edition are to examine how the areas of health, illness, and
medicine can be studied from a psychological and cultural perspective and to introduce the …

A unique volume of studies that deals with the impact of cultural conditioning on health
attitudes, health practices, and the whole concept of health. Consists of articles by 24 …